Women's Basketball Weekly Release - Week 10

PRINCETON, N.J. -- The 14-Game Tournament tips
off in earnest this week in Ivy League women’s basketball
with six teams playing their conference openers. Brown, Columbia,
Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard and Yale partake in their first League
games this week.

"Inside Ivy League Basketball" returns for the 2012 debut with its
fourth episode on Wednesday, Jan. 11, featuring interviews with
Princeton men’s basketball head coach Mitch
Henderson and Harvard senior guard Brogan
Berry.â€¨â€¨"Inside Ivy
League Basketball" is hosted by Dan Loney and
Brian Seltzer and takes an in-depth look at all
the news and notes surrounding Ivy men’s and women’s
basketball on and off the courts during the 2011-12 season. The
12-episode show debuted Thursday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. on
BlogTalkRadio.com (blogtalkradio.com/insideivyleaguebasketball) and
is available on-demand via BlogTalkRadio and
IvyLeagueSports.com.

Each episode is packed with highlights, statistics and expert
analysis in its 'Around the League' segment. With its interview
segments 'Program Profile,' 'Student-Athlete Spotlight' and 'Alumni
Focus,' the show will visit with past and present players, coaches
and administrators who impact Ivy League
basketball.â€¨â€¨Fans and alumni
can interact with the show via its social media platforms --
Facebook (Inside Ivy League Basketball) and Twitter
(@insideivyhoops) -- as well as provide ideas and content for the
show’s ‘Twitter Talk/Facebook Fodder’
segment.

PLAYER OF THE WEEK

Harvard senior guard Brogan Berry (Beavercreek,
Ohio) had a pretty good week. She moved up in the Ivy League and
Crimson record books in scoring and assists, posted her first
career double-double and led her team to two road victories. For
the cherry on the top of her successful seven-day stretch, Berry
has been named Ivy League Player of the Week.

Berry averaged 14.5 points, 5.5 assists and 2.5 rebounds in the
two wins for the Crimson. She posted her first career double-double
with 12 points and a career-high tying 10 assists in
Harvard’s 68-47 win at in-state rival Massachusetts and
scored 17 points in her team’s 56-44 road win over TCU. She
moved into ninth-place in Ivy League history and fourth-place in
Harvard history with 457 career assists and now stands in
10th-place in the Crimson record book with 1,236 career points.

Berry will be featured on this week's episode of Inside Ivy League
Basketball, Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. on BlogTalkRadio.com
(blogtalkradio.com/insideivyleaguebasketball). The senior earned
her second League Player of the Week award of the season (Dec. 12)
and the fifth of her career. Berry became the second Ivy player to
reach double-digits in assists this season, joining Yale’s
Hayden Latham, who tallied 10 against Holy Cross
on Nov. 11. Berry was also named the College Sports Madness Ivy
League Player of the Week.

Berry's Statistics for the Week

MIN

FG-A

PCT

3FG-A

PCT

FT-A

PCT

REB

A

B

S

PTS

at Massachusetts

37

3-7

.429

1-2

.500

5-5

1.000

3

10

0

3

12

at San Jose State

38

5-10

.500

3-5

.600

4-7

.571

2

1

0

1

17

TOTALS

37.5

8-17

.471

4-7

.571

9-12

.750

2.5

5.5

0.0

2.0

14

ROOKIE OF THE WEEK

Yale freshman guard Sarah Halejian (Wyckoff,
N.J.) was instrumental in the Bulldogs’ two victories en
route to being named Ivy League Rookie of the Week.

Halejian earned her second Rookie of the Week award (Dec. 19).
The freshman averaged 13.5 points, 3.0 assists, 2.0 rebounds and
1.5 steals in two games for the Bulldogs, as Yale went 2-0 on the
week. Halejian posted 13 points, four assists and three rebounds in
her team’s 69-48 win at Bucknell and followed that with a
14-point, three-steal, two-rebound performance as Yale took down
Baruch, 80-47.

Halejian's Statistics for the Week

MIN

FG-A

PCT

3FG-A

PCT

FT-A

PCT

REB

A

B

S

PTS

at Bucknell

29

3-6

.500

1-2

.500

6-8

.750

3

4

0

0

13

vs. Baruch

28

4-9

.444

2-7

.286

4-4

1.000

1

2

0

3

14

TOTALS

28.5

7-15

.467

3-9

.333

10-12

.833

2.0

3.0

0.0

1.5

13

Cornell and Yale each also went 2-0 on the week. Cornell earned a
pair of road victories over Fordham (40-39) and Nebraska-Omaha
(63-51) while the Bulldogs took down Bucknell, 69-48, and Baruch,
80-47. In other conference action, Princeton traveled to
Philadelphia and defeated Penn, 83-48, in the first Ivy League
contest of the season. The Tigers recorded their fourth-straight
win and handed Penn its first home loss of the year. The Quakers
have dropped two in a row for the first time in 2011-12.
Conference action begins in full this week, as the other six teams
will open their Ivy League slates.